Si Chen got involved with open source software when he and his wife left their careers as a portfolio manager and a research analyst and started Gracious Style, an online retailer. After building their first online store with Perl, PHP, and MySQL, and he began to work on a more comprehensive solution, which led him [...]

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Well, hello world, I’m new to the MWNW team and just wanted to introduce myself. I’m Keith and I’m a gadget geek who has a thing for creative stuff and an inclination towards all things open. After spending eight good years in Waterloo, Ontario, I had been exposed to Microsoft (and the other Waterloo company) [...]

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I often talk about new meetup on some user groups, like HTML5mtl. Since I’m in the IT industry, user groups have always been for me an awesome place to be. It’s a great way to learn from other for free or a low fee. It’s also one of the best moments to meet other developers, [...]

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Tanzim Saqib is a .NET Architect consultant, who won Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional” award couple times. He helped British Telecom build Web 2.0 for Business SaaS architectures complex widget ecosystem, hybrid MVC, and CMS Framework for their large customer-base. In 7 years in professional software development, he worked for companies like personalized Web 2.0 start-page [...]

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Windows Azure™ is an open cloud platform that allows many different technologies to run so that developers don’t have to choose. Your application may not be written in .NET, you may not know .NET, but you can still use Windows Azure to take your applications to the next level. The Microsoft Cloud, Windows Azure™, is [...]

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Zack Urlocker (@ZUrlocker)is Chief Operating Officer at Zendesk, the leading cloud-based help desk software company. He was previously VP Products at MySQL where he was responsible for Engineering and Marketing. He is a frequent speaker and writer on technology.  http://www.theopenforce.com/ What is your preferred Open Source platform and why? For many people the LAMP stack [...]

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Jeff ( @geerlingguy ) currently works for flockNote, an online communication company based in Texas, and collaborates on many projects outside of his work for flockNote. He contributes code to some open source mobile development tools for iOS and Android, and contributes code, documentation, and support to Drupal, and dabbles in many small projects for various [...]

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Ever wanted to learn more about HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript? You want to discover what you can accomplish with this new technology, but you don’t know where to start? Do you struggle to find some time  to sit down and become a HTML5 ninja? If you say yes to one of those questions, I have [...]

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Tyranny of the OR

Back in the day when I thought I knew everything, it was easy to make sweeping declarations such as: technology x is way better than y only real programmers use x x is much better because it has feature z that y does not WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT So one day when I thought I [...]

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If you haven’t found it yet and you are doing HTML, javaScript or CSS development, check out jsfiddle! Sometimes you hear about a cool new HTML5 feature and you want to explore it, but you don’t want to go through the hassle of building and deploying a web page to do it. This is when [...]

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